Alastair Turner (@decodableminion) 's Twitter Profile
Alastair Turner

@decodableminion

I'm sure data is important... but it's not important in quite that way. #Postgres community @Percona. Twoutput is, as per the usual disclaimer, my own.

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.VLDB Solutions offers full Greenplum Database consulting services plus ‘Greenlight’ a fully managed, run anywhere, Greenplum-As-A-Service. pivotal.io/partners/si/vl… #greenplum #greenlight

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What is Protegrity and how can it help to protect data in your Greenplum Database database from unauthorised access? Find out more at 17:00 BST / 09:00 PST tomorrow protegrity.com/events/protegr…

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Ran out of time on my lightning talk at #pgconfeu on an experiment in distributing crossmatches in #Greenplum. Slides below in case you were wondering what you missed. drive.google.com/file/d/1JLM1jd… heydi fx Stefan Keller

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Autumn/Winter 2018 trend watch: consolidation is definitely IN. #Cloudera/#Hortonworks and #IBM/#RedHat What impact is the corporate turbulence going to have on technical innovation in #Hadoop, #Inifinispan, ...

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I’m waiting for the other two ppl to show up so the 💈 quartet can start the gig. Seriously, two of the smartest guys i know.

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Join at Pivotal software's London office tomorrow evening for some Open Source Database goodness. After I tell you why pgAudit for #PostgreSQL is not as dry a topic as it sounds, @FredericoRazzoli will give you an intro to #MySQL query tuning meetup.com/London-Open-So…

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How to optimize searches of billions of celestial objects in the sky! Identifying which ones are within a given conical radius of each other, using quad trees and IPIX cells. (I gave this talk internally last Fall, but video of it just released publicly today.)

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Practical approaches to using data while preserving #dataprivacy FTW Code drop from a team Google for Private Join and Compute - aggregates without sharing sensitive data. github.com/Google/private… But can it be applied to cross database joins? I feel a #summerproject coming on.

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Latest ⁦VLDB Solutions⁩ blog post covers ⁦Greenplum Database⁩ provisioning using Terraform on AWS & access to data stored in S3. Enjoy! #oss #postgres #greenplum #terraform #aws #cloud #s3 vldbsolutions.com/blog/greenplum…

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My first post on the Percona blog. Check it out for how Meson and some new, more granular, Git commands give you new options for building #PostgreSQL from source and testing patches.

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The London Data Engineering Interest Group is back. Join us for "Data Engineering - Something old and something new" on 03 October in Shoreditch. meetup.com/london-data-en…

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#London's PostgreSQL users are becoming a group again. Join us for a social Meetup on 11 December, just to say "Hi", as a warmup to some more structured events with presentations and stuff next year. meetup.com/london-postgre…

#London's <a href="/PostgreSQL/">PostgreSQL</a> users are becoming a group again. Join us for a social Meetup on 11 December, just to say "Hi", as a warmup to some more structured events with presentations and stuff next year.

meetup.com/london-postgre…
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Wondering where your database nerdery fix for the week will come from? If you're in London, join us on Thursday evening to see fellow PostgreSQL people and for talks on Aurora DSQL, granular access controls and data masking. meetup.com/london-postgre…

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If you're gong to be in London for VLDB 2025 🇬🇧, and have an interest in PostgreSQL, then join us for a Meetup dedicated to Very Large Postgres on the evening of Tuesday 2 September at Dogget's on Blackfriars Bridge. meetup.com/london-postgre…

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#CBIMagpie has a very generous definition of magpie. I'm familiar with the habit of picking the closest shiny but not the "embed successfully in the business" bit.